ISIS militants shoots more than 40 in mass killing in Iraq’s Anbar

 Written by : Mohamed Abdel Fattah

Oct 30, 2014

Islamic state of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants executed 46 people and besieged 500 families in the Iraqi city of Heet, Al Arabiya News Channel’s correspondent to Anbar reported on Wednesday.

ISIS militants targeted members of the Sunni Albu Nimr tribe, which had fought against them in Anbar, according to media reports. killing over 40 people on , including Iraqi army soldiers, in a city captured earlier in October.

Anbar provincial council chairman Sabah Karhout said those killed were captured when the Islamic State group overran the town, located about 85 miles west of Baghdad, earlier this month

The slayings took place on a main street in al-Bakir district in the town of Heet, which has been the scene of intense fighting by jihadis and local resistance groups in recent weeks.

A photograph obtained by The Associated Press showed a line of the men's bodies by a small pool of blood as onlookers walked by.

While ISIS did not claim responsibility for the killings yet, but Human Rights Watch said there is evidence that the group had executed between 560 and 770 men -- mostly captured soldiers --earlier in the year.

ISIS executed hundreds of members of a Syrian tribe that fought against them, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.

The Obama administration and Iraq has teamed up with some Sunni tribesmen to fight against Isis in the hope of rekindling the same Sunni uprising that shattered an al-Qaida-linked group at the height of Iraq's sectarian civil strife between 2005 and 2007.

Sources

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-iraq-news-30-sunni-tribesmen-executed-by-islamic-state-anbar-province-1472309
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/10/29/isis-shoots-30-in-mass-killing-near-baghdad-official-says/
http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-executes-over-40-people-including-sunni-tribals-iraqi-soldiers-anbar-1715962


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